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RINALDI , The country's first designer accessories label celebrates ten years.
Rinaldi turns ten this year. India's first designer accessories lable has since become synonymous for its avante garde designs in footwear and accessories. Started in 1998 by Rina Shah (fresh out of FIT, New York), Rinaldi has grown manifold with a presence across the globe and India. Pls let me know if you would like to do a story with Rina Shah, the founder of Rinaldi who has moved back to India after five years in New York from where she ran her footwear empire with elan!!
Rinaldi, India's first designer accessories label launched by Rina Shah turns Ten this December. Rinaldi was started by Rina (at age 25) when the design revolution in India bought in its purview only heavy bridalwear and saris. Rinaldi being an Accessories Only label started a revolution of sorts with its avante garde designs for footwear and handbags. After Rinaldi, many have followed suit. Rina Shah strongly believes in non-violence and non-cruelty to animals and has been a PETA award-winner for manufacturing creative designs while using non-leather and non-wool products. Rinaldi is the ONLY designer label in India that promotes animal friendly, cruelty free fashion by using mock leather in all their designs. After the tremendously successful launch of Rinaldi, Rina moved to New York where she lived for five years and continued to run her business in India. While in New York, Rina started her own store there and also expanded her business to include supplying accessories to the leading fashion stores of USA. The label too evolved to reflect international design trends aesthetically blended with Rina's signature style.
Over the last ten years, Rinaldi has become synonymous with its funky eclectic style of footwear including boots, flats, ballerina slip ons and customized bridalwear. Her bags and totes always make an individualistic style statement. Besides the Rinaldi flagship store at Colaba (also opening soon at Bandra, Mumbai), Rina Shahs designs are also available at Kimaya, Samsaara, AZA MEN in Mumbai; Kimaya in New Delhi, 85 Lands down in Kolkatta, Shimmer in Bangalore, Rudraksh and IRIS in Pune. Rina Shah now proudly launches her "anniversary" collection "Angel", a line of footwear for young girls (between 3years and 13 years) "Angel is a range that boasts of a vast variety of styles for young girls. From my experience, there aren't too many footwear options for children in India. "Angel" is stylish and yet celebrates the vibrant innocence of young girls", says Rina Shah.
Angel comprises pretty sandals, peeptoes, fur lined boots, cute ballerinas and comfortable flats and even formal slip ons for girls, ideal for all occasions and season. Fun colours, bold embellishments and prints in styles that are oh so charming and yet versatile with each pair from the "Angles" collection being supremely comfortable and superbly finished. Rinaldi will also undertake orders to custom design footwear for girls. Rina works with only the best leather look-alikes (and not leather with Rina being a firm believer in non-cruelty to animals) imported from Europe. Each pair is personally designed by Rina and handcut and crafted by her team to make a pair that is a beautiful blend of style, workmanship, comfort and practicality. A combination very rare to find when it comes to footwear for children!!Source: ftv.com
A design is the visual appearance of a product, such as a skirt with ruffles or the cut or decorative pattern on a shirt. If the design is unique it can be registered. This gives the designer protection for the visual appearance of the product, but not its feel, material or function. If the feel, material or function of bed linen could be registered as a design, the market would become monopolised. However, Australian artist Ken Done was able to register pillowcases and quilt covers featuring his unique artwork because they were new and distinctive. Similarly, while a designer would not be able to register the feel, material or function of jeans, Australian designers Sass and Bide were able to register a unique design for detailed straight leg jeans featuring particular designs of the pockets. A design must be new and distinctive to be registered. This means it can't be the same or similar to designs already produced (even in a sketch). There are certain designs that can't be registered, including designs featuring scandalous graphics. To prevent registration being refused or revoked, applicants need to be sure their design is new and distinctive. Before filing a design application with IP Australia, you can search existing design records through the IP Australia website . Legal action may be taken against you if you infringe the rights of another designer. A registered design that has been examined and certified gives you a legally enforceable right to use your product’s design and prevent others from using your design without your permission. Advice and assistance in design registration can be sought from a professional. Patent attorneys and intellectual property lawyers can be found in the Yellow Pages and on the IP Professional's page on IP Australia's website.
Nothing identifies a woman as being an Indian as strongly as a bride. Keeping up with its tradition of bringing out the traditional side of the Indian women, Frontier Bazar has recently launched a sensational range of Bridal Collection in its karolbagh showroom with the glamour fashion show by Kamya Punjabi, renowned Television Star in India. Frontier Bazar is India's leading manufacturer exporter in Indian garment Industry. Company deals in high class and exclusive collection on hand embroidered Indian ethnic ladies wear and embroidered fabrics of all varieties.
Frontier Bazar was opened in the heart of Karol Bagh on August 2000. Frontier Bazar has been designed keeping in mind the requirements of different clients. The special bridal wear collection is being designed by designed duo of Anil and Sunil Batra.
"My bridal gowns are all reinventions of the classics, providing an affordable alternative for women everywhere," said Mr. Anil Batra, owner of Frontier Bazar. "I put a lot of design energy into designing this collection for Target because every bride deserves to find the gown of her dreams, regardless of her budget. Every woman remembers how she felt on her wedding day for the rest of her life, so ensuring she feels confident in the 'perfect' dress is very important to me."
After gaining popularity in Phagwara Frontier moved to Delhi and since the company has acquired and knack of dressing women in the latest style fashion as developed an innate understanding of what women wants. Frontier Bazar's creativity has completed a distinct presence across the world's best markets.
Anil Batra has already introduced Shararas, fish out lehangas in shaded pastel colors and mermaid cut lehangas in georgette and brocade and trousers with fusion of Indian and Western cuts. The saris are introduced with new color shades with blouses in satin tissue and crepe tissue. Anil feels that all his designs are specially created to give the sheer and shimmer look of the Indian beauty. Mr. Batra has been the key person to design such a great collection for the company from last few decades. He believes in presenting all outfits with an Indian touch.Source: ftv.com
Fusing the best of Chinese culture with contemporary elements of style, the collection, incorporated ready to wear for men, women and kids, along with accessories and home décor.
Models Mashoom Singha and Andressa modeled dresses from the latest Autumn line of Shanghai Tang. Some of the guests who dropped in at the select preview over wine and cheese hosted by Mr. Samir Modi, Managing Director, Modi Enterprises with wife Shivani Modi and Devaunshi Mehta at Articullate Art gallery included Yash & Avanti Birla, Hasina Jethmalani, Surily Goel, Sunil & Maya Alagh, Lalit Modi, Anoop Mehta, Ashish Goel, DP Goel, Amit Gaur, Nina Manuel, Mallika Sagar Advani, Nisha Jamwal, Anil Dharker, etc. guests exclaimed over the collection with Chinese motifs and especially the accessories.
Shanghai Tang's fundamental design concept is inspired by traditional Chinese motifs combined with the modernity and dynamism of the 21st century. Like all the major international brands, Shanghai Tang has flagship boutiques in the shopping capitals of the world. However, its message is unique and remarkable: Shanghai Tang creates luxurious, modern Chinese chic with themes deeply rooted in ancient and authentic Chinese culture, from calligraphy to The Silk Road to Chinese contemporary art. While Shanghai Tang does not currently have any freestanding boutiques in India, the brand is nonetheless a household name amongst all the fashion conscious, globetrotting and cosmopolitan Indians.
Speaking on the occasion Mr. Samir Modi, Managing Director, Modi Enterprises – the Indian promoters of Shanghai Tang, said "Shanghai Tang has a very select and niche clientele and is popular amongst connoisseurs of fashion. Their clothes and accessories are perfectly suited to Indian tastes as they are a fusion of Western cuts and Oriental detailing. Via this trunk show, we are not only able to bring Shanghai Tang to its regular clients, but at the same time introduce the brand to a larger section of the niche luxury market." source: ftv.com
To gauge the level of intellectual property (IP) awareness in the Australian fashion industry, IP Australia along with The Australian Fashion Industry and The Fashion Group International recently sent a short survey to 450 members of the fashion industry. Of the 79 respondents who completed the survey the majority were designers (55%) and marketing professionals (17%). The results revealed that 51% of respondents were very aware of intellectual property, 39% were somewhat aware and 8.9% were not aware of intellectual property at all. This section of the fashion industry i.e. those who were either somewhat or not at all aware of IP represent an important target group for IP Australia. The types of intellectual property protection respondents were mostly aware of were Trade Marks (88%) and Copyright (76%). Awareness levels for Design registration and Patent protection came in equally at 66%. Many respondents were interested in increasing their own awareness of IP, with 73% advising they would like general information about intellectual property, with strategies for protecting their Designs and Trade Marks (64%) and Exporting (56%) being popular topics of interest. Additionally, over one third of respondents chose to be added to our fashion mailing list and will be updated with any future IP Australia activities. These results provided an important guide to the type of information useful for this target audience and IP Australia will be providing tailored seminars and events for future fashion related activities. IP Australia would like to thank all the survey participants and look forward to using this information to help tailor a 12 month marketing and communication plan. We will be repeating the survey after 12 months to assess any changes in awareness levels and to ensure we are providing relevant and useful intellectual property information.
The launches of kids wear collection announced by Allen Solly. Which are uber cool, funky, stylish, frill free and comfortable. Kids wear products are fun, casual, different, international and stylish.
Comment on the launch by MR. R. Satyajit COO of Allen Solly, He said, the kids wear market is expected around 2,000 crores, including school uniforms, and developing 30% every year. The kids wear market is one of the fastest growing industries. The aim of the Allen Solly is to play a main role in the branded section.
The most comfortable fabric for children is cotton so 90% of the product is made up of 100% cotton. There are four strong collections namely: Urban holiday, Color my world, Enchanted and Sports Academy have build various occasion in kids life.
While designing the clothes the class parameters has been maintained with testing for saliva and perspiration color fastness. An effort has been made while making the product for child safe like: not included any drawstring around the neck and particular length is included.
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